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    Default Help! Ive lost my hustle..

    No joke here. I've been dancing for over eight years. Love it, love it, love it. I'm used to high competition clubs with 100+ girls nightly. Always a top earner. I moved to a smaller club almost a year ago with little competition and the money has been like taking candy from a baby. I don't usually tell what I make, but to prove my point of a serious problem here... my goal each night is to average $100 per hour of my shift. More often than not I've met or exceed this in my current club. Tonight I worked a six hour shift and walked with $192. I know it's me and not the business. I'm usually funny, flirty, witty, sexy, selling, closing, banking... I'm like Super Stripper! Da! Da! Da!
    My hustle is gone. Can't find it. I'm having a hard time even cracking a smile most of the time. I'm a smart ass biotch pretty much all night. All my girls are asking me whats wrong with me and I don't know. It's kind of like a 'getting up on the wrong side of the bed' day thats lasted three weeks. I don't have any abnormal stress in my personal life or in the club. I just can't seem to shake this funk. I've done the whole reset thing and pampered myself on my off days and added alittle more to my workout to boost my confidence. Not working. Not working. I've never been off my game this bad, this long.
    Should I light a candle? Sacrifice a thong to the stripper goddesses?
    Any suggestions? I'm desperate.

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    Default Re: Help! Ive lost my hustle..

    It's called burnout and means you should take a small holiday.


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    - My Great Grandmother Bessie's Recipe for Success

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    Default Re: Help! Ive lost my hustle..

    OMG! I've lost my hustle too. I've been dancing for over 7 years Los Angeles and Vegas. I have never had a problem for more than maybe a day. I know it's not my physical appearance, but something wrong with my mentality. I can't even blame it on a really bad experience at work. It just happened.

    It started in January. I got the flu and had to take couple of weeks off. No problem cuz I can always make all bills and rent in a week. Wanted so much to go back to work and finally I did at the end of Jan. I live in Vegas and work at Rhino. Always, and I mean always made money there with no problem. This month I haven't made my house fee back 4 diff times. That is frckn ridiculous. I know I'm burned out, but I've tried all the things that usually work for me. Massage pampering self, etc. Nothing. I considered getting a real job. I did the math on real job wages, laughed, and still not enough to give me my mojo back.

    I'm not the only one this has happened to recently. Another one of my gf's who comes out here from LA, never made less than $800 per night regardless of what night it was. But same thing, las cpl of weeks she was just trying to make her house fee back. I tried working at a different club, and it has helped a little. Sometimes we need a little change.

    I didn't think this could happen after all this time. I'm looking for fairy dust, magic, pretending it's my last day on earth, anything to get it back, but I don't know what it is.

    Just remember, the guys are there, and if you're not there for the taking, they will give their $$ to somebody else.

    Good Luck. Let me know when & how you get your magic back. I'll PM secret if I find it.

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    Not entirely sure whats going on. You have certainly had time off and pampered yourself. I feel like part of the problem may be that you have lost your "fun" persona. It may appear to the customers that you are all business now just calculating your money and that may seem somewhat bitchy. I think if you get your "fun" persona back that will make a big difference in your income. I do notice girls make great money for awhile and are really money-motivated. Thats what is all about of course. Then, all of a sudden there is a change in their persona that the customers can detect. The persona suddenly is simply money-motivated but bitchy. Maybe you need to get back to the "fun" customer-oriented persona? Of course, if that does not work and you are not burned out maybe you should chang clubs, that usually does the trick.

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    Default Re: Help! Ive lost my hustle..

    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    It's called burnout and means you should take a small holiday.
    Exactly...don't feel bad it happens to everyone. Contrary to popular belief, this is not an easy job. It is both physically AND mentally taxing. .. and burnout doesn't discriminate, it doesn't matter in the least how great your hustle typically is. I bet if you allow yourself a few days off, and do nothing but relax and pamper yourself then your next day back at work will be an entirely different ballgame.

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    Burnout is right!!

    Take a week-long vacation out of town. Leave town. This might mean visiting family or friends, going to the beach, a spa, a getaway with your man. Whatever!! As long as you know you'll be relaxing most of the time...

    Good luck sweetie

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    Default Re: Help! Ive lost my hustle..

    Burnout is right!!

    Take a week-long vacation out of town. Leave town. This might mean visiting family or friends, going to the beach, a spa, a getaway with your man. Whatever!! As long as you know you'll be relaxing most of the time...
    I go to my hometown and feel reborn!!

    Good luck sweetie

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    Default Re: Help! Ive lost my hustle..

    Yup! The wonders of burnout. I've found that with my schedule (5 classes, 3 days of work), I really NEED to take a little time off about once every 3 months or I just lose it, start calling out, etc. I'm taking off this week actually-it's been a hard couple of months, so I get to spend some time just concentrating on school and me.

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    Default Re: Help! Ive lost my hustle..

    Thanks for all your posts ladies.
    It's not burnout. I took tuesday night off and read alot of sw posts about this topic. Oregonchick totally hit the nail on the head. I'm all business now. So, last night I went in with a really small goal ($80) and one selling technic - flirty/dumb. Made my goal in the first 20 minutes; set a new goal ($100 more). Made that real fast and repeated that a few more time troughout the night. Ended up doing very well. Only downside to last night is that I drank too much.
    Hope you all have great weekends!

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